On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 03:32:06PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >On Monday 21 September 2009 12:06:39 Mike McClain wrote: > >>[H]ow can I > >>grab some text on the command line and paste it in X, or vise versa? > > > >I believe xclip <http://sourceforge.net/projects/xclip/> can do this. > ><http://elcasey.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/xclip-use-the-clipboard-from-the- > >command-line/> > > > >I think it is in Lenny/main. > > xclip in Squeeze seems to work from the CLI to X, not vice-versa. >
Thanks Boyd & Wayne. The only way I've found 'til now is to echo a string back and forth, as in: >From the CLI: echo 'some string' > /dev/pts/2 >From xterm: echo 'some string' > /dev/tty9 Awkward but less so than writing to a file. Thanks again, Mike -- Satisfied user of Linux since 1997. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
